Well, Who am "Us", anyway?

extra bonus bogus somewhat biographical page(well, actually not much but what do you want for free?)

Just another ego exercise by yrs truly. Pay it no mind.

COMRADE DR OTTO YAMAMOTO OF HOLLYWOOD
ENDURES TORMENT OF LINIUX RADIO PRISON!!!

My real name is C.C. Slater, Right now, I'm in Highland, NY.
I live with 7 cats, who eat like hogs and always want in and out.
See the lil schwas HERE
That's okay, now, tho, cos my place has a cat flap.
Only took the lil boogers 4 days to figure THAT out. Meow n'at.

For those who wonder about these things: The name “ Mr Yamamoto ” is from a Firesign Theatre album. The line in question is an exchange between two people in a tv commercial on the album “Dont Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers”. One character says “ I'm Mr. Yamamoto of Hollywood ” and another says “ and for a workin' man, like myself, the price is right ”(it's also on “Not Insane”). Which was my Usenet sig for quite awhile. I don't know why(but then I never do), but the line stuck with me. The addition of “Comrade ” came in 2k2 and is because I was(am) tired of AM Radio loonies calling anything to the left of Bob Dole Pineapple a “Commie”-when they don't likely even have a clue what one is(no, I'm NOT a commie, BTW). “Otto” came about in 2k5. The name “gets” me. It also was or is a car dealer near the Capitol Region of NY, and the hero of the movie “Repo Man“,I even have a “Yamamoto” tattoo, which can be seen Here . Now all agents of law enforcement and/or Homeland Insecurity can readily identify me for general harssment or shanghaing to the Gulag, whatever. For our Japanese Navy Fans, my nick has nothing to do with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned and executed the raid on Pearl Harbor.Sorry.

At various times in my life I've been in the navy, Been a radio presenter, a nurse, a weekend father and a variety of other things. Right now, I spend my working days running around southeastern New York, conking grannies with oxygen tanks, whacking small chirren with nebülizers (ow). The gig pays the bills, and I get of chances to see some of the unusual stuff on the roads in my area, which I then get pictures of at weekends.

So why roads? Why not? I've loved roads and road maps since since I was a child-I got hooked when I got a "Build-a-Road" set for Christmas one year. That was a cool toy-something that stimulated the imagination. They don't make them like that anymore... I got way into it when I was a teenager; aided and abetted by the nice folks at CalTrans District 11. I've picked up(and lost) various and sundry bits of road related stuff over the years. I know a bit about the hows and whys of road building; but I really can't claim any level of expertise.

But that's all right, since on the internet, you don't need to be an expert to have a page(no one knows you're a dog. In fact, I'm rilly a räbid schnäuzer with a Palm® LIFE Drive!, arph!)-all you need is a bit of time to waste and a decent net editor or two-and hey presto! You have a presence! What a bargain.

Spiffy software helps, too. Thru my gig at the Frostburg State University cable TV station in 1997, I got hooked on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator-then I got my own computer, and have been at it semi- furiously ever since. I used to use a cheesy Compaq machine and it prolly hated me cos I flogged the hell out of it. It croaked in April 2k3, and I had to actually part w/some loot and get a real box. That lasted til early 2k5; it had a nasty tendency to eat hard drives(yum!). So I went cheap again and got a E-Machines, binned Winbows XP, and am cookin’ right along with Debian(via Kanotix). I added a Cheapo Acer “Aspire”(you “Aspire” to have some $) laptop to the armada-as it happens the keyboard is cheesy, but overall it's not half bad.(Kept XP, but split it with SUSE). And I copped to an Apple iMac-the "A" revision with OS 8.6. I actually use that for browsing and IRC.

It's sorta cool, akin to the “15 Minutes of Fame” concept. Anyway, the instigator of this site is Scott “Kurumi” Oglesby(bet HE’S just thrilled to hear that!). His injunction to “get out and hack something” inspired me to find something unique to throw up on the net(which sounds kinda gross now that I think about it. My cats don’t bother with that, they just throw up anywhere).

IGNORE THIS PICTURE.

Other things I dig are:

• The Firesign Theatre these 4 or 5 Crazy Guys have mounted over the land for many years, “annoying everyone“.

• Frank Zappa. One of the greatest composers of the 20^th century. Never mind the PRMC lyrics. This guy did a good bit of seriously interesting music, If you listen, you can play “Find the Influence“. A few to start off with: Stravinsky, Varesé and Johnny "Guitar" Watson. He's slowly gaining cred with “serious“ musicians.

• Politics.
  I love politics, it's the government I can't stand. What else is as good for a laugh? My personal choice is "None of the above"-which I can't register as, pity that. I vote(if I feel like it....just to gum up the system a bit) for Dick Nixon (he's not dead, he's "Metabolically Impaired")The most SPLEEN-eating Crim ever to disgrace the office! He'd mop the deck with a pansy like G "WMD" Boosh. or Gumby! (all the flexibility you could want in a politician, plus he's Green to boot) on a regular basis. Hit this to see one of my fave sites.

• Henry Earl or Earl Henry . 800+ Arrests and counting.
  That more than qualifies him to be President. Or Wesley Willis. (18+)

• Morons.org A News and entertainment site sort of. (18+)

• A Boy and His Computer (18+)
  Ryland Sanders Blog and stuff. He also has a the Church sine generator
  and The G"WMD"B comic generator-part of what makes up my FZ vs WMD page.
  There are a number of liars and crooks to choose from now.
  You may have seen one of the blog authors someplace else...

• LINIUX!!!! aieeeeeeeeee!
  
  
  Seriously: “Communist” organizations like Novell and Unisys are deploying this OS.
  I use Debian and SUSE, and they work fine.
  You can BUY XP; and get next to nothing. OEM distros will give you a weak software suite
  loaded with crap. If you want useful stuff, be prepared to pay the cost of a new computer
  for the likes of Photoshop and Office and so on.
  Or just load up ANY Linux, and get an office suite, graphics suite, programming tools
  etc. for absolutely free.
  SUSE Linux
  (I hate XP)
  Multiple versions are available for download; I run this on my laptop.
  For most folks, it’ll do right out of the bag.
  Novell and Unisys are copping to this. You do the math.
  Tends to be conservative in version currency, but it's stable as a rock.
  Knoppix:
  A live Debian Distro(one of many).
  It works with everything. The site is initially in Hermann the German,
  But if ya click on the USA/GB flag at the left you get english.
  Kanotix:
  An upgrade on Knoppix, and the easiest way to install Debian yet.
  The install tool insists it’s like all alpha and stuff;
  That's rubbish. Debian is yr best bet for the latest packages.
  Get this CD if you find you like Knoppix a lot.
  Kanotix includes a KLIK utility that allows for temporary software installation.
  And all Debian packages are available under KLIK, as well as a few other things.
  Learn about Debian here.
  Linspire
  Easily the most obnoxious Liniux Distro out there.
  The guy is really in yr face with it.
  But if you're not technically inclined, this is the Liniux for you.
  They make getting software E-Z, and most of it is free.
  You'll be up and running in 30 minutes
  and will be doing everything you did in Windows.
  Except getting spyware, worms, trojans...
  Puppy Linux.
  Got an olde computer lying about? It's sad and blue cos it thinks it’s obsolete.
  Well here’s something to make it feel better. Puppy is the 800 pound Chihuaua of
  Very Small Linux. Out of the bag, it's more tricked out than XP,
  but it only occupies a fraction of the space. I ran it on a PIII/700 w/96MB of RAM,
  when my old computer died last year. I was STILL posting pages, browsing and all that,
  if you have 128MB plus, then it’s gravy. You can run a maka tricked out version
  off a 512 MB SD card, and still have room for file storage. No kidding.

• The Obsolete Computer Museum
  and Old Computers.com
  Fine Family Entertainment(old computers can verge to PG in spots).
  All about those old computers you grew up with.
  Or Threw up with. Whatever.

• Tiny URL
  Shrink huge URLs for emails newsgroups n’at. Be courteous.

• Smalltime Industries : Entertaimement for the Masses.
  Much more wholesome than Jerry Springer. Betcha can't find the Späm.

• Cats think they're somebody and that they deserve special treatment. The opposite tends to be true, but hey, the attitude they cop is amusing, at least. I collect them, de-sex them and trade them.

• Coffee! The fuel that propels the author of these pages to ever greater heights(at least in HIS mind....)It's not a food group, but it should be. Drink lots of it. It's actually good for you in moderation, I hear. Guess that leaves out chugging whole pots. Juan Valdez' burrito needs new shoes, just the same. Eat LOTS of red meat, too(Atkins?!? Ha, I had a line on this YEARS ago! I should be getting all that dope chedda.). Smoke ’em if you got ’em. Bad health habits are what made this country great. We all got healthy and organic and stuff, and now look at the pathetic swine we've become.

• Pizza with anchovies, jalapenos, black olives and pineapples. MMMMMMMMMMMM.

• Palm Pilots : I have the Palm LIFEDrive(oooOOOooo,ain't I spaishl).
  I like it, despite the stupid yuppie name.
  Palms do a great deal with very little, and there’s gobs o’ software for free-quite a lot of it very useful.
  I have a page of free downloads elswhere on this site.

• Cop shows from the 60's. They don't make 'em like this anymore(and never will again). Mannix, Ironsides, Hawaii 5-0, and of course, Dragnet (in B&W or nearly living Colour, it et SPLEEN).
  And just because, The Streets Of San Fransisco.

• Green Acres . This was the surreal side of the Beverly Hillbillies Triptych. Despite it's superficial resemblance to other contemporary comedies, there are some truly Dada moments on the show. Farming in a business suit? Complaining to your husband about the credits? Definitely a great break from reality. Arnold Ziffel was a freakin' genius. VERY subversive( warning: the site will ask you for money ).

• The Late Hunter S. Thompson . This is what happens when you do bad drugs and write bad books.
  You make a great deal of money. A good Fan site(subject to bandwidth limitations).
  Excerpts of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are now available on CD with Harry Dean Stanton doing narration-well worth a dollar. Read Hell's Angels .

• The League Of Non Aligned Modelers : Actually, I'm not terribly into model railways, However, this lot has a good attitude. It's really worth having a look at their modelling-because it's first class work. Plus, they linked my site(which is waaaay out of context, considering the subject matter of the site) AND used the Don Ho Freeway Graphic. Bonus points for that. Go to the site.

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All right, that's enough of that, then.
Hopefully ,this makes the "Minimum daily requirement" for a "personal" page.
If it doesn't, well you can go get stuffed. So NERR.

QUASI PLUG and B.S. SECTION:
THIS PAGE ORIGINALLY COMPOSED IN NETSCAPE COMPOSER(4.6 I think),
Updated in WEB EXPRESS
(both left mounds of rubbish in this page, which I'm just getting around to excising). BACKGROUND DONE IN ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 4.0.1.
THIS BACKGROUND, INCIDENTALLY, IS AN ALTERED COPY OF A 1929(?) POSTCARD SHOWING A "BOULEVARD THRU ELYSIAN PARK".
THE ORIGINAL LOOKS LIKE THIS:

THIS IS NOW PART OF THE CA-110 PASADENA FREEWAY(NORTHBOUND CARRIAGEWAY) JUST WEST OF THE IH 5 AND JUST EAST OF DODGER STADIUM(Batter Up!)
(IF I RECALL CORRECTLY.)

ALL IMAGES ON ALL PAGES ARE ORIGINAL UNLESS OTHERWISE STOLEN.
ANYONE IS WELCOME TO USE THESE IMAGES IN THEIR OWN PAGES, JUST BE SURE TO GIVE CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE, THEN, OKAY? THANKS. Far Out.
NOW, BACK ON THE FREEWAY, WHICH IS ALREADY IN PROGRESS!



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